Robert Allin
Military | Sergeant | Right Waist Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW).
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Herman Arthur Peacher
Military
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Herman Peacher (photo from his wife Bertie)
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Herman Peacher’s Dog Tag from page 22 (KU-1487) at https://catalog.archives.gov/id/139542878 (NARA)
Herman Peacher was Tail Gunner on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW).
POW
Service
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Cedric Cole
Military | Staff Sergeant (3rd Grade) | Radio Operator | 458th Bomb Group
Cedric Cole was Radio Operator on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'.... -
James Fittinger
Military | Staff Sergeant | Left Waist Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW). -
Peter Kowal
Military | Second Lieutenant | Navigator | 458th Bomb Group
Peter Kowal was Navigator on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'.... -
James Mortinson
Military | Second Lieutenant | Bombardier | 458th Bomb Group
James Mortinson was Bombardier on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'.... -
Lawrence Scheiding
Military | Staff Sergeant | Ball Turret Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Lawrence Scheiding was Ball Turret gunner on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #4129273 'Flak... -
George Spaven
Military | First Lieutenant | Pilot | 458th Bomb Group
Crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission in B-24 41-28729 on 8 March 1944. Returned to duty (RTD). George Spaven was Pilot of 41-29273 'Flak Magnet' on the 22 April 1944 mission. Hit by flak at... -
James Wedding
Military | Technical Sergeant | Top Turret Gunner | 458th Bomb Group
Shot down 22 April 1944 in B-24 #41-29273 'Flak Magnet'. Prisoner of War (POW). -
Robert Zedeker
Military | Second Lieutenant | Co-Pilot | 458th Bomb Group
Robert Zedeker was Co-Pilot on board B-24H #41-28729 when it crashed while attempting to land at Warton (Neaton) upon returning from a combat mission on 8 March 1944. Returned To Duty (RTD). ...
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458th Bomb Group
Group
The 458th Bomb Group (H) entered combat with the 8th Air Force in February 1944. Based at Horsham St. Faith in England, the combat crews participated in the decisive Campaigns 'Big Week', 'Big B', D-Day and the assault on Germany's oil industry waged... -
753rd Bomb Squadron
Squadron
Aircraft
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41-29273 Flak Magnet
B-24 Liberator
MACR 4180: Spaven's A/C was hit by Flak at approximately 19:38 hours SW of Hamm, Germany. The #2 engine caught fire and the A/C fell out of formation. Four chutes were seen. A/C then was brought under control and Lt George N. Spaven Jr regained...
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22 April 1944
Associated Place
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Horsham St Faith
Military site : airfield
Horsham St Faith was an RAF Bomber Command Station opened in June 1940. It was home to Bristol Blenheim medium-bombers, and was for a time occupied by fighters, including those of No. 19 Squadron and No. 264 Squadron. From September 1942 the airfield...
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| Born | 16 June 1917 | |
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Laclede, Linn County, Missouri, United States |
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| Lived in | 1940 | |
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San Diego, California |
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| Lived in | 1942 | |
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Brookfield, Linn County, Missouri |
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| Enlisted | 2 November 1942 | |
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Jefferson Barracks, Missouri |
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| Prisoner of War (POW) | 22 April 1944 – 1945 | |
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captured, he was hospitalized in the Menden Reserve hospital, Germany, for a fractured ankle. Interned at Stalag Luft 4 in Gross Tychow/Tychowo, Pomerania. Force-marched from there to Wobbelin bei Ludwigslust, then to Usedom/Savenmünde, Germany. NARA WWII POW record : “Returned to Military Control 3 July 1945.” |
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| Buried | 2008 | |
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Herman Peacher rests at the La Vista Memorial Park, National City, California |
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| Died | 8 October 2008 | |
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| 13 April 2020 13:46:56 | ED-BB | Changes to service number, biography, awards, events, place associations and mission associations |
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MACR 4180 |
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| 12 April 2020 14:18:05 | ED-BB | Changes to middlename |
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| Date | Contributor | Update |
| 27 September 2014 18:12:58 | AAM | AAM ingest |
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Drawn from the records of the National Museum of the Mighty Eighth Air Force, Savannah, Georgia / MACR 4180 / MACR 4180, Losses of the 8th & 9th Air Forces & Page 375 in the book 2ND AIR DIVISIONby Turner Publishing Company, 1998 edition (D790.A2S45) & Page 280 of the book LIBERATORS OVER NORWICH by Mackay, Bailry & Scorza, 2010, D790G4582010 & href="http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm">http://www.458bg.com/crew33spaven.htm> / Paul Andrews, Project Bits and Pieces, 8th Air Force Roll of Honor database |
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